Leslie Stuart: Composer of Florodora (Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre)

Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered as the composer of the hit show, Florodora. He began writing popular songs as a teenager, first for blackface and vaudeville performers, and eventually for more "legitimate" shows and revues. Florodora (1899), written in collaboration with London's most fashionable librettist, Owen Hall, was a musical-comedy sensation. Its combination of the traditional slow love ballads and waltzes with more rhythmic and long-lined numbers made it a worldwide success. He continued to compose through the first decade of the 20th century, laying the groundwork for the coming innovations in British and American musical theater.

• | Author: Andrew Lamb
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 27, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 310 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138995363
• | ISBN-13: 9781138995369